On April 20, 2018 at 12:29, g007 said...
All nonresidential customers pay a PF charge. Most due to motors.
Only the large industrial customers (steel mills, automobile factories, etc) do. Retail businesses, small establishments, (ie MacDonalds), etc do not.
Nobody was discussing such establishments. Power factor is mostly irrelevant to a discussion about power quality and power to amplifiers. And has no relationship to surge protectors.
The topic is found in the title. Power factor is irrelevance to both surge protection and to power amps.